The practice of extending unconditional love to all beings equally, rejecting the ego's tendency to favor some over others based on status or relationship.
Rabia al-Adawiyya taught that true love of the Divine demands we love all creation with equal devotion, free from preference or attachment to outcomes. This concept directly challenges favoritism's root: the ego's ranking of people by utility, kinship, or appeal. When we practice divine love without discrimination, we recognize that showing preference to certain individuals over others fractures our spiritual integrity and distances us from authentic community. Favoritism costs us precisely this wholeness—it creates hierarchies where none should exist and blinds us to the inherent worth in every person. By cultivating undifferentiated compassion, we expose favoritism as a form of spiritual poverty, a failure to see the beloved in everyone.
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